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Arokh's Lair - A Drakan: Order of The Flame and Drakan: The Ancient's Gates fan site |
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Last updated 01 July 2009 . Best viewed in IE6 at 1024x768 or better **This site is NOT affiliated, associated nor connected with the website arokhslair.com in any way and I am not responsible for the content of that site. Said domain was stolen from me by a 'marketing company' and currently the site hosts malware that hijacks your browser.**
About Arokh's Lair
Arokh's Lair is a non profit fan site for Surreal Software's games, Drakan: Order of the Flame (PC) and Drakan: The Ancient's Gates (PS2). For the PC version, the prequel to the PS2 game, you will find reviews of single player add on levels, previews of upcoming add-ons, fan art & fan fiction created by talented Drakan fans and more. For the PS2 version, there is a fan art page and a forum where you can chat about the game with other fans and look for help if you are stuck.
Finally, there is a help section which some of you may find useful if you are encountering problems running PC Drakan on your machine. There are also some fixes for the annoying crash that sometimes occurs when exiting the city of Alwarren in Drakan: OOTF.
Latest News
For information on how to play Drakan on line go here.
1st July 2009 - Arokh's Twin
I have now being able to get some more web space to host almost all Drakan files. Single player levels were previously hosted on my ISP web space, they have now been moved to this server. I am still restricted to the same amount of bandwidth so I will see how this goes. Multiplayer levels are hosted on my home server and will hopefully be moved to this server next month for faster downloads. Bookmark http://levels.arokhslair.net which will redirect to wherever files are hosted eliminating the need to update bookmarks if server / web site is changed.
27h May 2009 - Arokh's Twin
Due to the demise of planetdrakan.com some levels and Drakan files listed on this web site can no longer be downloaded. Andrey's server also seems to have a problem unless the password has been changed. With his server now being the only place where most Drakan files are hosted this is a problem. I have some single player levels on this web site but due to bandwidth & webspace restrictions I am unable to host much more than this. I will look at updating the links / password for Andrey's server and the possibility of hosting more files later this week.
06th May 2009 - Arokh's Twin
SetsunaShadow has sent in some fan art which is based on the box art for the Japanese version of OOTF. You can find it in the artist galleries on the art page.
20th April 2009 - Arokh's Twin
First post of the year as there hasn't been much to post about in the drakan community but however things are picking up. A couple of indie developers are looking into making dragon themed games and Shelim who did the 445++ patch (below) has made a Drakan themed classic scrolling shoot-em up where you fly a dragon against an onslaught of other dragons over a sieged town. For more info please see this post on the forums.
18th October 2008 - Arokh's Twin
Testing of Shelim's unofficial 445++ patch has been completed and final tweaks to the code have been made so this is now being released to the Drakan community. Some undetected bugs / problems may be present so if any are encountered please let either me or Shelim know over on the forums. Please do read the installation notes thoroughly before reporting problems.
Note that this patch is for single player only and will prevent you from playing the game online but however an uninstall utility is provided so the game can be reverted to its original form enabling you to play online again. Some single player levels may be incompatible with this patch & installing this patch on anything other than the retail 445 patched release of the game may cause unpredictable results. Download the patch on the downloads page or directly here.
This patch fixes both the 'Alwarren' bug and the crash on game startup on systems equipped with a Geforce 6 or later graphics card. Existing save games are unaffected.
25th September 2008 - Arokh's Twin
Shelim over on the forums is working on a couple of patches for Drakan single player. One fixes the crashing experienced with geforce 6 / 7 / 8 series graphics cards on Windows XP on some systems and the other fixes the crash when exiting Alwarren. The geforce crash fix has already been released but its still undergoing testing and the Alwarren crash is still in development but should be available soon. These will be ready to download from this site as soon as testing is complete. Up to now players had to start the game in developer mode to get around the crashing at game start up and had to download a save to get around the Alwarren problem. These patches however will probably invalidate your existing saves so you will have to start a new game. I need to confirm this...
Many thanks to Shelim for his hard work for the Drakan community!
15th April 2008 - Arokh's Twin
I have decided to stop hosting Drakan multiplayer games at the weekends and hence the Arokh's Lair Drakan game server will no longer be running. This is simply because so-one plays on it anymore; I see the odd player every now and then and its not enough to justify the running of a machine plus its a waste of electricity. The server hardware is being replaced with a low power Linux based NAS box with FTP capability so the Drakan music and other files will still be hosted. This web site however will continue for the foreseeable future.
5th March 2008 - Arokh's Twin
At last, I have something else to post on this web site! Well, 'Mad Bohemian' has sent me three save games saved with the too hard difficulty setting which can be copied to your Drakan saves folder and loaded as normal. This is ideal for people who have to run the game in developer mode to avoid the game crash on some machines and also to play new levels. They can be found on the downloads page.
As for other things in the Drakan community, there hasn't been much and I have no updates on any single player levels including Hammer's series (below) I'm afraid. As soon as I hear anything though, it will be posted here.
One other thing worth mentioning is that Drakan: TAG now runs (albeit with random crashing) on a 60Gb European / Australian PS3 console if the latest system software is installed. The game would not work at all before so lets hope Sony will improve backwards compatibility in the future to get it working without the crashes. Note however, the new 40Gb consoles are incapable of playing PS2 games at all so if you have one of these, you are out of luck.
24th June 2007 - Arokh's Twin
I have been playtesting a small part of Hammer's upcoming Drakan single player level series titled 'Aergoth' which is shaping up to be looking like a great series. Its set during the days of the Order of the Flame just before the Dark Wars (around 600 years before the events of the games) and although news has been scarce work is being done on it. There is a demo of the 1st level and part of the second on the level previews page. Note that the demo was released several years ago so there will be some changes in the final release.
26th May 2007 - Arokh's Twin
I have added an events calendar to the site where members of the drakan community can post events such as multiplayer events and release dates of levels, projects etc. This can be found on the menu on the left. The upcoming events box can now be found on both the calendar page and this index page at the bottom.
29th April 2007 - Arokh's Twin
Tips and Help page updated as I have found a potential problem which causes Drakan dedicated servers to crash after a few minutes when running on Windows 2000 and XP. This was due to an old master server that no longer exists causing a TCP/IP timeout which crashed the server. As far as I am aware, Gamespy runs the one and only Drakan master server.
14th December 2006 - Admin
It
has come to my attention that spammers are sending spam emails and
faking the from address using addresses that appeared to have come from
this site. These DID NOT originate from my server, it is simply spammers
using my domain as the faked return path address. These can be
identified by random characters before the @arokhslair.net; please
delete and ignore these emails should you get them and do not reply to
them.
16th April 2006 - Arokh's Twin
Just a couple of things today, first of all the Drakan:TAG fan art has been updated and secondly, Douglas442 dropped me an email to say that his level series titled 'Rynn and the Halls or Morbia' or just RATH for short will be completed. Its taking a while and wasn't released last year due to various setbacks but however, work is definitely now in progress and some great renders have been made that relate to the game. One or two background stories of the characters have been added too. No definite date yet but more info can be found at www.bremsstrahlung.org - do take a look if you get time.
15th March 2006 - Arokh's Twin
A few things to post today. First of all, Drakon Rider has managed to 'fix' the problem of the Windows 2000 / XP level editor crash during 3D view when making Drakan levels. This is a welcome fix as many level makers have had to resort to using Windows 98 for making Drakan levels or in most cases, give up making levels for the game altogether. This can be downloaded here.
Secondly, an update on the post below which is briefly to say that a lot of time and effort went into it since January mainly comprising of getting the two currently released levels finished and some work on other levels. Its still a long way off but it will almost certainly be finished. Also, a couple of fan art submissions was sent in over the last month. Apologies to the people that drew them but I haven't had time to do much with the PC etc. These can be found on the fan art pages here; newest ones are at the bottom.
24th January 2006 - Arokh's Twin
Another single player Drakan levels series is on the way! I don't know how many of you remember Hammer's single player level called Aergoth which was released unfinished a couple of years ago but its now back in development. This was undoubtedly one of the best fan made level series I have seen created for this game and a lot of people were asking on the forums what has happened to it so now you know. A more detailed update will be posted in 2-4 weeks so keep checking back. The demo / work so far can be downloaded from http://levels.arokhslair.net or Planet Drakan.
21st January 2006 - Arokh's Twin
I finally managed to find some image gallery script that worked without running into headaches with server file permissions etc so I got that fan art posted I mentioned in the previous post. It's by a fan who has played both games and a direct link the new galleries can be found here. The existing fan art on the site will be left as it is unless I decide to change things round.
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